I'm thinking Matt Grothe will get more airtime on ESPN's "College Football Live" than I got last week.

The Bulls quarterback is scheduled for a live phone interview (hey, I thought players were only available at the Tuesday luncheon?) with ESPN's Rece Davis and a panel of analysts as the network counts down the final hours until Thursday night's first Division I-A games.

Davis, by the way, told me last week that ESPN's Dick Vitale is a big fan of USF freshman running back Mike Ford. Vitale lives in Sarasota, where Ford went to high school. Davis said Vitale stopped him and specifically told him to watch out for Ford this fall. I know Vitale raving about somebody's potential isn't particularly rare, but it's not often a football player.

So tune in to Grothe, then drop a comment here as to what you thought of the interview. I think I'll be on my way to Disney by then, trying to sneak in a half-day with the wife and kids before I'm fully engulfed in football season.

-- Linkage: The Sarasota Herald Tribune has a feature on Amarri Jackson today, and the Times' Shannon Colavecchio-Van Sickler reports that USF's enrollment has topped 45,000 students. And remember Frank Harry? The famously homesick USF signee might be a two-way lineman at Southern University this fall. And we'll post a scouting report on Elon in the next day or two, but the News-Record of Greensboro, N.C., has one up already, writing that for Elon, "victory is highly unlikely Saturday."